Great idea!
On Oct 9, 2008, at 9:22 AM, Sean Linkenback wrote:
Since you have these in hand now, why don't you do everyone a great
service by photo-documenting the original side by side with one of
the minty whites (hopefully with some close-ups), and post it up on
your site or give it to Ed and Sue to document on LAMP.
-------------- Original message from Bruce Hershenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I am currently auctioning inserts, and when I gathered up all the
hundreds of inserts that I have been consigned, I discovered I had
been sent FIVE different "Scarface" ones (the Pacino version). Close
examination of them determined that four of them are "minty whites",
the fake inserts that have polluted our hobby (see past MoPo e-mails
or my E-Mail Club Archive or the LAMP site for more on these
fakes).I will be returning those fake inserts to their owners, with
the plea that they don't consign them to another auction (or put
them on eBay).
But this was a great chance to look at the fakes very closely! Of
course, they can be distinguished from the known original from their
trademark "whiter than white" paper, and their glossier back side.
But what is interesting to me is that when they are laid side by
side, the lousy printing of the minty white becomes painfully
obvious. They were clearly NOT printed from the original plates (as
has sometime been speculated) but instead were made by photographing
a known original, because the fine shadings in some areas are blurry
or "filled in", as would be expected when you reproduce an original.
Unfortunately, this would not jump out at most people when they
solely look at the minty white fake. But when you look at BOTH the
minty white fake and the proven original, those printing differences
would be obvious to anyone (except maybe Professor Powers).
Have the minty white fakes killed the value of the proven originals?
The Scarface insert I am auctioning is currently at $246. so that is
clearly not the case!
Bruce
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